OHGE Community Meeting 2025

Join us at the 2025 OHGE Community Meeting, which will bring together the genomics community at the Univeristy of Edinburgh to connect and collaborate with colleagues from across campuses and disciplines.

OHGE is inclusive of all working with genomic technology and information in any field of research across the University, and takes a One Health approach to bring together those working on human, animal, plant and ecosystem health.

Keynote speakers: 

• Professor Eric Miska (University of Cambridge)

  RNA communications to RNA therapies. Lessons from nature 

• Professor Matthew Loose (University of Nottingham)

  Batman and Robin. Intraoperative Nanopore sequencing for CNS tumours 

• Dr Laura Kelly (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

  Ash tree genomics – providing solutions to global pest and pathogen threats 

• Dr Lara Urban (University of Zurich)

  Nanopore technology and AI for rapid One Health surveillance 

Also featuring talks from: 

• Dr Alex Watkins (Ultima Genomics)

  The $80 Genome and Beyond - Ultima Genomics

• Professor Sara Brown (IGC)

  Functional genomics - opportunities in skin.

• Professor Kelly Blacklock (RDSVS) 

  Dog Tumours, Human Insights: A One Health Genomics Approach to Rare Melanomas

• Dr Musa Hassan (Roslin)

  Host-pathogen interaction genomics

• Dr Natalie Ring (Roslin)

  Using nanopore sequencing to analyse pathobiomes from FFPE tissue

• Dr Aida Rodrigo Albors (IRR)

  A cross-species approach to unlocking spinal cord regeneration

• Professor Steve Pollard (IRR)

  Synthetic super-enhancers enable selective expression of anti-cancer payloads for viral immunotherapy

• Dr Tiina Sarkinen (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)

  Potatoes, tomatoes and beyond: How crop wild relatives can help us in crop improvement

• Dr Alena Shkumatava (SBS)

  Determinants of non-coding RNA function

• Professor David Tollervey (SBS)

  Lighting Up RNA-Protein Interactions

• Dr Alex Twyford (SBS)

  The evolution of the 90Gb mistletoe megagenome

• Professor Joris Veltman (IGC)

  Genetics of reproductive disorders

Sponsors

This meeting is sponsored by:

Ultima Genomics - https://www.ultimagenomics.com/ (external site)

10x Genomics - https://www.10xgenomics.com/ (external site)

Illumina - https://www.illumina.com/ (external site)

Macrogen - https://www.macrogen-europe.com/ (external site)

Novogene - https://www.novogene.com/eu-en/ (external site)

Oxford Nanopore Technologies - https://nanoporetech.com/ (external site)